Embodiments of the present invention provide a routing method, a near field communication controller, a device host, and a terminal, where the method is used in a first terminal, the first terminal includes a device host DH, a near field communication controller NFCC, and at least one near field communication execution environment NFCEE, and the method includes: receiving, by the NFCC, a data frame sent by a second terminal; determining, by the NFCC, whether a default-NFCEE-based routing manner is used to search for a matched routing entry for the data frame; if yes, determining, by the NFCC, a target NFCEE according to the default-NFCEE-based routing manner, so that the NFCC routes the data frame to the target NFCEE.